This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below. Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help.
This is a featured picture, which means that members of the community have identified it as one of the finest images on the English Wikipedia, adding significantly to its accompanying article. If you have a different image of similar quality, be sure to upload it using the proper free license tag, add it to a relevant article, and nominate it.
Calesthenics [sic] / photograph by Ansel Adams.
( )
Author
Ansel Adams
(1902–1984)
Alternative names
Ansel Easton Adams
Description
American photographer, pianist, writer, mountaineer, university teacher and environmentalist
Date of birth/death
20 February 1902
22 April 1984
Location of birth/death
San Francisco
Carmel-by-the-Sea
Work period
1930 –1984
Work location
American West
Authority file
: Q60809
VIAF: 61625857
ISNI: 0000000121357568
ULAN: 500026108
LCCN: n79056359
NAID: 10583011
WorldCat
creator QS:P170,Q60809
Title
Calesthenics [sic] / photograph by Ansel Adams.
Description
Female internees practicing calisthenics at Manzanar War Relocation Center, Owens Valley, California. In 1943, Ansel Adams followed an invitation by newly appointed camp director Ralph Merritt to photograph the everyday life of the Japanese American internees in the camp. Unlike his colleague Dorothea Lange, whose pictures for the War Relocation Authority focused on the hardship and humiliation of the deportation and internment, Adams's intent was to "show how these people, suffering under a great injustice, (…) had overcome the sense of defeat and despair by building for themselves a vital community in an arid (but magnificent) environment." (Ansel Adams, 1965)
Group of girls standing in line formation, each one reaching both of her arms straight out to the side.
Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Part of: Ansel Adams Manzanar War Relocation Center photographs
Accession number
Call Number
LOT 10479-7, no. 11
LC-DIG-ppprs-00419 DLC (b&w digital file from original print)
LC-DIG-ppprs-00160 DLC (b&w digital file from original neg.)
LC-A35-T01-6-M-8 DLC (b&w film dup. neg.)
Notes
Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print.
Original neg. no.: LC-A35-6-M-8.
Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1968.
Forms part of: Manzanar War Relocation Center photographs.
Source
This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppprs.00419. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required.See Commons:Licensing.
العربية ∙ беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ বাংলা ∙ čeština ∙ Deutsch ∙ English ∙ español ∙ فارسی ∙ suomi ∙ français ∙ galego ∙ עברית ∙ magyar ∙ Bahasa Indonesia ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ lietuvių ∙ македонски ∙ മലയാളം ∙ Nederlands ∙ polski ∙ português ∙ português do Brasil ∙ română ∙ русский ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenčina ∙ slovenščina ∙ Türkçe ∙ українська ∙ 简体中文 ∙ 繁體中文 ∙ +/−
This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppprs.00160. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required.See Commons:Licensing.
العربية ∙ беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ বাংলা ∙ čeština ∙ Deutsch ∙ English ∙ español ∙ فارسی ∙ suomi ∙ français ∙ galego ∙ עברית ∙ magyar ∙ Bahasa Indonesia ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ lietuvių ∙ македонски ∙ മലയാളം ∙ Nederlands ∙ polski ∙ português ∙ português do Brasil ∙ română ∙ русский ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenčina ∙ slovenščina ∙ Türkçe ∙ українська ∙ 简体中文 ∙ 繁體中文 ∙ +/−
Permission (Reusing this file)
Special Terms of Use:No known restrictions on publication.
Modifications
InfoField
Taken from original full-scale tiff file
Cropped according to print version
Brightness reduced, contrast increased
Multiple artifacts manually removed w. stamp tool
Downsampled 50%
Median filter 1px, 70% normal
Grey-to-transparent gradient tool, overlay 20% over sky w. mask
Converted to jpg at 8/10 quality level, 5 progressive scans
Assessment
This is a featured picture on the English language Wikipedia (Featured pictures) and is considered one of the finest images. See its nomination here. This is a featured picture on the Turkish language Wikipedia (Seçkin resimler) and is considered one of the finest images. See its nomination here.
If you think this file should be featured on Wikimedia Commons as well, feel free to nominate it.
If you have an image of similar quality that can be published under a suitable copyright license, be sure to upload it, tag it, and nominate it.
This image has been selected as a Selected picture at the Portal Japan on English Wikipedia.
Licensing
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse
This work is from the Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar collection at the Library of Congress. According to the library, there are no known copyright restrictions on the use of this work.
Captions
Female Japanese American internees practicing calisthenics in 1943 at Manzanar War Relocation Center, California. Photograph by Ansel Adams.
Items portrayed in this file
depicts
girl
expression, gesture or body pose: smiling with teeth
expression, gesture or body pose: standing
expression, gesture or body pose: smile
MIME type
image/jpeg
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time
Thumbnail
Dimensions
User
Comment
current
09:26, 28 January 2013
7,912 × 5,748 (7.32 MB)
Trialsanderrors
Reverted to version as of 21:49, 23 August 2010, unnecessary
06:49, 27 January 2013
7,912 × 5,748 (7.66 MB)
Slick-o-bot
Bot: convert to a non-interlaced jpeg (see bug #17645)
21:49, 23 August 2010
7,912 × 5,748 (7.32 MB)
Holly Cheng
Larger version from Trialsanderrors's Flickr stream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/trialsanderrors/493942203/
